Monday, October 22, 2007

THE BEST OF THE YEAR THUS FAR

2007 is going to be a challenging year when it comes to selecting my favorite/the best films of the year. At the begining of each week I will be posting my adjusted top picks of the year and as award season moves along, I will be doing Oscar predictions and my own best of the year pieces. Here is my top 30 of the year, broken into 3 tiers:

Andrew Dominik’s THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
Sean Penn’s INTO THE WILD
David Fincher’s ZODIAC
Susanne Bier’s THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
David Cronenberg’s EASTERN PROMISES
Tony Gilroy’s MICHAEL CLAYTON
Peter Berg’s THE KINGDOM
Zack Snyder’s 300
Paul Greengrass’s THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
Gavin Hood’s RENDITION

Jimmy Mangold’s 3:10 TO YUMA
Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS
John Carney’s ONCE
Werner Herzog’s RESCUE DAWN
Judd Apatow’s KNOCKED UP
Paul Haggis’s IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
James Gray’s WE OWN THE NIGHT
Gore Verbinski’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END
Billy Ray’s BREACH
Jake Kasdan’s THE TV SET

Michael Moore’s SICKO
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 28 WEEKS LATER
Wes Anderson’s THE DARJEELING LIMITED
David Silverman’s THE SIMPSONS: THE MOVIE
Adrienne Shelly’s WAITRESS
Mike Binder’s REIGN OVER ME
Bong Joon-ho’s THE HOST
Joe Carnahan’s SMOKIN’ ACES
Steven Soderbergh’s OCEANS 13
Craig Brewer’s BLACK SNAKE MOAN

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